Well this is early!

All the claimants are militarizing their disputed islands.

No, they aren’t, other than perhaps a symbolic presence such as a police force or a weather detachment to demonstrate their sovereignty. Why? Because they would be pissing in the wind if China decided to seize their islands (such as China did when they took the Paracel Islands from the South Vietnamese in 1974 when the Viets were distracted with other things).

China didn’t even participate in the arbitration

They didn’t show up because they knew they didn’t have a case. But it doesn’t matter, the findings of the Tribunal are legal and binding under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Know why else they didn’t show? Because they knew they were going to get burned at the stake for the massive ecological damage they were doing to the marine environment with their do it yourself island building. Again, in violation of international law. And they did:

“The Tribunal considered the effect on the marine environment of China’s recent large-scale land reclamation and construction of artificial islands at seven features in the Spratly Islands and found that China had caused severe harm to the coral reef environment and violated its obligation to preserve and protect fragile ecosystems and the habitat of depleted, threatened, or endangered species. The
Tribunal also found that Chinese authorities were aware that Chinese fishermen have harvested endangered sea turtles, coral, and giant clams on a substantial scale in the South China Sea (using methods that inflict severe damage on the coral reef environment) and had not fulfilled their obligations to stop such activities.”

…

Taiwanese themselves rejected the decision because they make the same claim over the same area.

Nope. The only portion of the Tribunal ruling that Taiwan rejected was the classification of Itu Aba as a “rock” under the UNCLOS definition and thus not entitled to an EEZ. China agreed with this rejection, likely because many of their claimed features were declared rocks as well.

Further, Taiwan has not militarized either of their 2 island possessions in the South China Sea. Nor do they make the same Territorial/EEZ claim as China and nor are they abusing their neighbors in the area. China is.

Moreover, guess who else’s claims overrun the other claimants? Vietnam’s overlaps Malaysia’s and the Phillipines’s claim but the only one that warrants denunciation is China’s.

By international law EEZs can only extend 212 miles from the Nation’s coast. China’s claim extends almost 1000 miles from their coast. The others are obeying the law, China isn’t. So, yeah.

If anyone is guilty of hegemony in the South China Sea it certainly isn’t the US.

In fact, RFK is toying with the idea of running on the Libertarian Party ticket as their candidate. I read this a few days ago and don’t know if it’s progressed any further. RFK will not be the demon nominee.

JC, I would rate this as unlikely.
Dave Smith has inserted himself into the LP.
He & his controlling faction are not so hot on RFK Jr, even though many people connected to him have given him air time.

Malice is tight with Smith & spent a the weekend a few weeks ago retweeting RJF Jr anti 1st & 2nd amendment tweets.

RFK Jr only became big on the 1st amendment during COVID.
And he is not a fan of the 2nd amendment.
With those credentials, the LP wouldn’t let him in the door.

How much of Dan Andrews decision to step down is connected to a certain car/bike accident?
Is it a case of a deal being cut with the incredibly corrupt VicPol?
Keep in mind that Dan Andrews recently green lit the shutting down of the office that was investigating the Gobbo/Lawyer X affair.
Was that the prid pro quo for being able to skate on the bingle?

Are people really celebrating his departure in Melbourne?

Keep in mind that Dan Andrews recently green lit the shutting down of the office that was investigating the Gobbo/Lawyer X affair.

Not a good look for someone who doesn’t want to be associated with certain secret ethnic crime gangs, given how many convictions she tainted.

Accurised rounds for Mr Bond too.

Louder than the movies. You still hear the primer go bang.

Rolling Stone publishes RFK Jr interview.
May or may not be a hit piece.

Where’s Tom? I miss him.

I will never be great at guitar or piano.

I should have been a mechanic. 🙂

Woke is as good a word as any for purveyors of populist nonsense of the SJW kind. And economical with pixels also.

Race Card is simply a modification of a sporting term – it means “shut up and go away because I don’t have the wit to argue with you”. Again…economical.

Why do people like Mz. Tyson like many…many words? So they can pose and display “towering intellects” while hiding their real intent behind them. Orwell was onto this tactic nearly a century ago. He knew the value of simple speech.

Queen Laufey is why we protect Tiger Moms.

Look at the results!

Tartaria!:

The Tartaria Conspiracy Theory has its roots in Russian Pseudoscience, with mentions of the Empire of Tartaria first appearing in Russian conspiracy theorist Anatoly Fomenko’s New Chronology.

Nikolai Levashov later spread his work around in his racial occult history.

This led to a belief that Russia was Tartaria, whose real origins were covered up by the West. Later, the Russia Geographical Society later debunked all these claims, dismissing this conspiracy theory as an extremist fantasy.

And:

According to the proponents of this theory, Tartaria was a giant race of technologically superior beings who existed on Earth long before we came into the picture. Some even suggest that we devolved from them after the “Great Flood of Mud.”

Uh huh.

Many aspects of the Tartaria conspiracy theory have been attributed to conspiracy theorists misreading historical maps or not having enough knowledge of certain historical events.

Still, avid believers would tell you that this is the work of certain forces trying to cover up our world’s more-enlightened past.

Avid believers indeed.

If you asked any Tartarian conspiracy theorists why there are no solid pieces of evidence of this lost city of Tartaria, they would all give you two answers, the Great Mud Flood and the Great Cover-Up. So, who would want to hide the existence of this technologically advanced race?

The common answer to that would be modern Western world powers like France, the United States, and Germany.

Brilliant. Apparently, according to the Tartaria Q people, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and WWI were both attempts to cover up the REAL TRUTH about this giant race of architects.

The bow ties are spinning at 12000 rpm this morning.

Apparently, according to the Tartaria Q people, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and WWI were both attempts to cover up the REAL TRUTH about this giant race of architects.

Thanks KD.
Dark Emu has more credibility than Tartaria.

The bedroom was strewn with crusty tissues and piss jugs, creating an Incel midden over dozens of weeks…

The tissues are fine, I draw the line at piss jugs.

Like David Bowie, you should store your piss in jars in the fridge, so a wizard like Jimmy Page can’t steal it. Then it can’t be used in magic rituals.

Did the TARTARIANS use directed energy weapons on 9/11 and at the OK City bombing?

News from the art world.

What if Monuments Actually Looked Like Things? (Daniel Greenfield, 26 Sep)

Well to me the sculpture does look like an actual thing, but I think that’s all I can safely say.

Why do people like Mz. Tyson like many…many words? So they can pose and display “towering intellects” while hiding their real intent behind them.

You flatter them a little.
The nearest such persons get to ‘real intent’ is the ‘pose’ stage – Moi, Moi, Moi.

Who would have thought, that giving a Waffen SS soldier, (from a unit that burned 1,000 Poles alive), a standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament, would upset people? Wow.
The Speaker of the Parliament, is going to take the hit, evidently.

The Mammy singer, has called this “a terrible mistake”.
Of course, the very “non Nazi” ‘elensky, has also apologised profusely and also claimed that it was all, a terrible misunderstanding.

No, ….., wait, ……, nothing at all, from the mouth of St Volodymyr the Pure.
Golly gosh, I wonder why?
Those Azov guys wouldn’t have anything to do with it, ……, would they?
They are NOT Nazis at all. No way. Those insignia on their tanks etc are not Nazi symbols. They are “ancient Egyptian”.

Last November, Russia put forward a motion in the UN, to “Oppose Nazism”.
A no brainer, right?
Under our intellectually challenged PM, and our vile Foreign Minister Wong, how do you reckon Australia voted?
Yep, ……, we abstained! Makes you feel kind of proud, doesn’t it?

In 2022, that is where we sit politically.
We do NOT even support a motion, to Oppose Nazism.
Un-F%#king believable!!!!!!

Here’s today’s spooner. Hope Tom is doing well.

https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/fc3247ce59eb94ee10a0de62ab2a85b5?width=1024

The Mammy singer, has called this “a terrible mistake”.
Of course, the very “non Nazi” ‘elensky, has also apologised profusely and also claimed that it was all, a terrible misunderstanding.

1. Mammy? Biden called LL Cool J … “boy” the other day.

2. Z is Jewish.

Part of Andrews’ legacy, from The Age;

In 2016, the North East Link was to cost “up to $10 billion”, but its price tag is now $16.5 billion. The West Gate Tunnel ballooned from $5.5 billion to $10 billion.

The Metro Tunnel’s 2015 business case said it would cost $7.5 billion, but it will cost $12 billion. And the Suburban Rail Loop when announced was to cost $50 billion; its first stage alone, covering just a third of the total proposal, is budgeted at $34.5 billion.

Add to that the destruction and trauma from his covid terror. Families ruined, the deaths from his incompetence and corruption, the approved thuggery unleashed by his Vikpol… it goes on.

Tom if you’re lurking in pre-op…all the best.

Hopefully you won’t be put under with “Total Eclipse of the Heart” belting out from the theatre playlist. 😀

Well to me the sculpture does look like an actual thing, but I think that’s all I can safely say.

What, like the Paris Buttplug?

I have words but won’t insult our host by using them.

Tartaria probably isn’t as silly as Khazarian conspiracy theories.

There are some hard to explain artefacts and people can’t explain them, the conclusions however can range from sensible to beyond silly.

I think the “mud flood” can be discounted by looking at the Grand Canyon.

The mud flood stuff is a distraction from real things like the younger dryas and melt water pulse 1a.

There are some historical quirks that seem very peculiar, like old newspaper reports of the US being intentionally populated with a large population of orphans.

Sorry for repeating, TE.

It’s the reverse Chris Rock.

Rock: Men tell more lies, women tell bigger lies.
Men: I’ll just have two beers.
Women: I’m pregnant with your baby.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
Sep 26, 2023 10:45 PM
This is first class work:

Kamahl AM @OfficialKamahl
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Is it true 4 decades there has been almost no discernible improvement in the lives of Indigenous Australians?
“In fact, if the NDIS or Medicare were delivering outcomes as bad as this $100 million a day, there would be a Royal Commission.” If so,why not one now?

Crikey this bloke is good.

Untrue. There has been significant improvement in the lives of indigenous Australians living in developed, urban areas (that is, assimilated Australians with some indigenous ancestry). There has been almost no discernible improvement in the lives of indigenous Australians living in remote communities (“on country”) and in camps near rural towns.

The focus of indigenous policy is on those already doing well, not those being left behind.

Dumb Tartarians couldn’t even predict and plan for a mud flood.

You, young lady, haven’t the faintest idea about the sheer power of the Great Cover Up. I expect you don’t even realise why you get so many downticks…

I like it too – as fantasy.

Here’s Donovan. Hard to believe this was a hit back in the day.

Where they giant orphans?

LOL

Made me spit my lapsang souchong everywhere!

Zelensky is Jewish, no amount of poor decision making or terrible PR optics by himself nor his backers like Truedeau can change that.

If we’re going to talk about bullshit arguments being pushed, let’s talk about Russia deNazifying Ukraine and dog whistling to idiots getting excited about “Khazaria” whilst at the same time saying that Ukraine isn’t a real country.

Crossie. They are the size of shipping containers and when burning will put out heat in excess of 1000c . I’ll let you go in with the crane hook!

I’m almost certain BitBoy (Ben Armstrong) is Martin A Armstrong’s son.

Good read indolent

VDH is always worthwhile.

Latvia and Azerbaijan, WTF were you thinking!?

55,000 and 70,000 SS volunteers a piece.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Waffen-SS_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts

Is it true 4 decades there has been almost no discernible improvement in the lives of Indigenous Australians?

Interestingly (or not), when we arrived in Australia over 4 decades ago, I was struck by pieces in the Courier-Mail celebrating ‘the first’ qualified Aboriginal nurse, or University Graduate in such-and-such, and so on.

This may, or may not, be a good proxy for ‘improvement’, and I’m not sure whether these were firsts, or how many people who might now identify as Indigenous, but then didn’t, had already followed down the professional channels. But 40-years on, this sort of achievement is completely unremarkable in the context of Aboriginal Australians.

Dan Andrews leaves behind an anti-life, anti-faith, anti-Catholic legacy
By Monica Doumit – September 26, 2023

Please God, his successor will not be so openly hostile to human life, marriage and family and to the Christian faith, and that the future will see the Andrews premiership as an aberration, not a baseline.

Ukraine & the Baltic states were willing participants in the push east by Germany and the barbarity.

People armed with clubs and axes were facing off against each other and the young, mainly female teachers barricaded inside their caged houses were terrified.

Which is obviously the fault of the police. The axes and clubs magically found themselves in the hands of drunks who had been forced to drink copious amounts of alcohol by evil someones.

Take responsibility for yourselves, people. This is where the problem lies, not with “policing”. Grow up.

Daniel Andrews trashed Victoria’s finances

Victorians will pay a hefty price for decades after state gross debt explodes to $239 billion, as borrowing costs for governments hit the highest rate in 15 years.

John Kehoe – Economics editor

Retiring Premier Daniel Andrews is leaving behind a nasty financial cocktail for his successors and future generations of Victorians.

Victoria’s non-financial public sector gross debt is forecast to blow out to $239 billion by 2026-27, just as global borrowing costs for governments have hit the highest rate in 15 years due to inflation angst.

He blew $1.1 billion cancelling Melbourne’s East West Link road project and $380 million on compensation for cancelling the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Victorians will now face decades of higher taxes.

The states have such terrible tax bases that it will inevitably be employers and property owners who will be hit with higher payroll and land taxes.

Andrews went cap in hand in April for a financial bail-out from the federal government, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese politely declined.

Memories of early 1990s

Privatisations will be necessary – counter to Andrews’ 2022 election ploy to “bring back” the government-owned State Electricity Commission to invest in green energy projects. Ten months after the election, Andrews is leaving and the SEC is nowhere to be seen.

As political commentator and former Kennet adviser Stephen Mayne observed: “Victoria’s finances are much worse than when John Cain quit, but somehow Dan has managed to leave on his own terms and govern without being held to account for imperilling the state’s public sector viability going forward.”

Andrews has left an unprecedented financial legacy for Victorians that will be felt for decades. Consequences, without accountability.

It’s a case study in a strongman premier running the state without any accountability from a hopeless Liberal opposition.

And a compliant fawning Business sector. Who obediently bowed before him at every opportunity.

Makka
Sep 27, 2023 8:58 AM

It’s a case study in a strongman premier running the state without any accountability from a hopeless Liberal opposition.

And a compliant fawning Business sector. Who obediently bowed before him at every opportunity.

Hypocrites – Updated

Business cheers as divisive Andrews bows out early

Polarising Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will hand power to his handpicked deputy Jacinta Allan after blindsiding rival factions with his shock resignation on Tuesday after nearly nine years in the job.

Ms Allan, from Mr Andrews’ Labor Socialist Left faction, is expected to be elected unopposed as interim premier on Wednesday and to support a continuation of the outgoing premier’s policies and projects.

Outgoing Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews showed “strong” leadership in tough circumstances during the pandemic, business heavyweights say, but also sometimes made poor decisions because of his “autocratic style”.

“There’s no rehearsal for that, and he didn’t sign on for it. He was sticking to the journey. That’s better than wandering all over the plan [in response to] public opinion. Have you ever tried to keep 6 million people happy? That’s what he was trying to do,” he said of the lockdowns.

Time for renewal

Regardless of their views on Mr Andrews’ decisions as premier, the business leaders agreed the time had come for new blood on Spring Street.

Mr Andrews came under frequent criticism during his reign for micromanaging his government, with his office having a larger staff and more sign-off than is typical for a premier.

Infrastructure legacy

Looking ahead to Mr Andrews’ legacy, business people praised his government’s commitment to infrastructure expansion.

“I think he’s been an exceptional leader, and he’s made decisions that will make Victoria a strong state for the future,” said Telstra director Elana Rubin, who worked closely with Mr Andrews.

“He’s poured a lot of concrete, a lot of infrastructure projects. Not just talked about them.”

The boxheads still considered the Eastern people’s as scum to be dealt with later.

This is correct.
Also correct:
…Ukraine & the Baltic states were willing participants in the push east by Germany and the barbarity….

Duncan McRae
8:19?AM (56 minutes ago)
to me

I don’t know how, but I stumbled across a language/accent nerd who pinpoints just the type of nazal Australian speech which is spreading through TV presenters, and gets right up my nose (literally — that nasal back-of-head noise ‘norrh’ for ‘no’).

As one of the commenters on the video points out, its a Sydney Northern Beaches accent – akin to the ‘valley girl’.

The “r coloured goat dipthong”.

https://youtu.be/z7DuvWVazpk?t=478

A correspondent writes:

See some unpleasant woman is suing Trump for $250,000,000 and wants lifetime ban for him and all his children from having a business in the state of New York.

Me: WTF!?

Latest Picture of the Canadian Parliament

the grog runners bring in the hooch from outside, and it’s the coppers job to stop that.

In other words the people in the APY lands are unable or unwilling to police and govern themselves.

The miscreants are people from within the community, not outsiders who are barred entry. The only desirable non-residents are the ones who offer education, medicine, policing, building and maintenance…all legacies of the evil colonialists.

They like our “stuff”…they hate us.

A spate of captain’s call decisions by Sydney Mayor Clover Moore to donate $450,000 in ratepayer funds to international aid,

Someone’s got their eye on a UN type sinecure.

I noticed it years ago when a certain female would do commercials for channel 10 advertising Big Brother and The Project.

Gretel Killean?

B’Hell – Just Got Home & Contents Insurance Renewal – Change on Last Year 34.8%

Yep, my rates went up 50%, car insurance 36% and house insurance 30%. Something has to break and soon.